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Example sentences for "worse still"

  • So it is, though; and, worse still, there is evidently some secret reason.

  • Worse still, as he lifted his poor wrinkled forehead to the tree-tops to catch the last beams of day, he felt a dreadful presence around him.

  • Worse still, there frequents in the upper parts of these mountains a kind of witless or silly Mulgars, who are called Obobbomans, with very long noses.

  • Worse still, I declined to consider any additional information offered me, as a secret placed in my keeping: I claimed perfect freedom to use my own discretion.

  • Worse still, to the humiliation was added infamy.

  • Then by what right do you seize a Spanish ship and, worse still, refuse to surrender her to her lawful owners, the representatives of His Most Catholic Majesty of Spain?

  • Yes, that's true enough--on board ship it's worse still.

  • Worse still, trying to secure the liberty of a well-known smuggler, one of the leading spirits in as determined a gang as existed on the coast.

  • He might agree with her against his better judgment, or, worse still, pretend to agree.

  • Worse still: that he has been walled up inside.

  • In each case the motive power was the same: the haunting fear that one had squeezed life dry; worse still, that it had not been worth the squeezing.

  • Worse still, he would perhaps accuse Purdy of inconsiderateness towards her, and fly into a rage with him; and then the two of them would quarrel, which would be a thousand pities.

  • Worse still, through their poverty or hostility abroad, they are a discredit or even a danger for France, as formerly with the Protestants driven out of the country by Louis XIV.

  • The moment this sense is at all lacking, the artist will not succeed in conveying power, but such obvious manifestations of it as mere strength, or, worse still, the insolence not infrequently accompanying high spirits.

  • Worse still, we must even forego our pleasure in colour, often a genuinely artistic pleasure, for they never systematically exploited this element, and in some of their best works the colour is actually harsh and unpleasant.

  • Or perhaps--worse still--we may have laughed at him.

  • Worse still, he was handling it like second nature.

  • Worse still, the insert would have to be managed without a point man.

  • Worse still, it did not take too challenging a flight of imagination to figure out who would end up being the patsy.

  • Worse still, he actually had become a liability.

  • Sir Giles had paid rent when he owed it; and, worse still, was disposed to remember in a friendly spirit what England had done for Ireland, in the course of the last fifty years.

  • Are you resigned to lead the life of an outlaw, and--worse still--not to feel the disgrace of it?

  • Is it in the face of a letter like this that you would permit him to continue his attentions, and, worse still, let the girls go off for an excursion of maybe a week or two?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worse still" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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